Improvement in fastenings for tool-handles



W. M. FISK.

Fasteningfor Tool Handles No. 161,942. Patented Apri|13,l875.

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WILLIAM M. FISK, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENINGS FOR TOOL-HANDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 161,942, dated April13, 1875; application filed January 30, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. FIsK, of Lancaster, Lancaster county,Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fasteningsfor Tool-Handles, of which the following is a specification:

The object of this invention is to provide ready and efficient means forfastening the handles in axes, hammers, and all tools oflikeconstruction; and it consists in a fasteningbar having thereon a button,to which a cap, having a chambered cavity, is applied and turned aboutone-fourth of a revolution, and thereby fastened. It also consists of aspring in combination with the fastening-bar to hold the cap in place.

Figure 1 represents a section, showing the eye of the tool and manner ofapplying the fastening-bar and cap. Fig. 2 is a side view of the bar,showing the button and spring; and Fig. 8 is a view of the under side ofthe cap.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the eye of the tool. B is the fastening-bar. G is thehandle. D is the cap. D is the button on the end of the fasteningbar. Fis the spring, and G is the shoulder on the bar.

The handle is cut away on one side to receive the bar, and a notch ismade therein to receive the shoulder G. The handle and the bar are nowpassed through the eye of the tool till their ends are flush with theoutside,

' as seen in Fig. 1, leaving the button E projecting outward, as seen inFig. 2. This button has a shoulder, H, on one or both sides. The cap Dhas a mortise or cavity, I, which is chambered out to receive theshoulders H. The mortise just allows the head J of the button to enter.the tool, and then by turning the cap around parallel with the eye it isfastened by the shoulders H entering the chambers in the mortise andlapping onto the eye, as seen in Fig. 1. F is a spring attached to thebar in any manner to allow it to engage with the cap, to prevent thelatter from turning. K is a small recess in the side of the cap for thespring to enter. The chambers in the mortise l are indicated in dottedlines in Fig. 3.

By this fastening the handle may be taken out and put in the eye of thetool with the greatest facility.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent-- The combination, with a tool and handle constructedsubstantially as described, of the shouldered bar B, the mortised andrecessed cap D, the button E, having shoulders H, and the spring F, allconstructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose specified.

WILLIAM M. FISK.

Witnesses:

Tues. MCELLIGOTT, ALEXANDER MOKELLY.

Then the cap is turned across

